The 16-day celebration of art showcasing a breadth of local and international performances and installations presented at locations across Philadelphia.
View More PIFA Returns: A full schedule of the 2016 Philadelphia International Festival of the ArtsCategory: Visual Arts
Visual arts and exhibitions in Philadelphia
Arts in Sacred Places: Grand opening of the Philadelphia Design Center
A new facility in Philadelphia offers theatrical designers affordable monthly memberships in an accessible co-workspace with state-of-the-arts equipment.
View More Arts in Sacred Places: Grand opening of the Philadelphia Design CenterGraffito Works: Improvisation Leading PROCESSION: THE ART OF NORMAN LEWIS (PAFA)
The first comprehensive museum overview of influential artist Norman Lewis opened at PAFA with an improvisational dance performance.
View More Graffito Works: Improvisation Leading PROCESSION: THE ART OF NORMAN LEWIS (PAFA)Shhhh: Secret Show at the Painted Bride.
There’s not much I can tell you about the one-night performance at the Painted Bride Art Center on February 9, 2016. The content, performers, and format are a secret to the audience until the performance begins.
View More Shhhh: Secret Show at the Painted Bride.Sketching Theater: RIZZO (Theatre Exile)
Artist Aaron Krolikowski provides first-hand accounts of events. Not in words, but in sketch.
View More Sketching Theater: RIZZO (Theatre Exile)Art Exhibit Celebrates Trisha Brown’s Creative Milieu
New exhibit focuses on the choreographic works and also the lesser-known drawings created by dance maker Trisha Brown.
View More Art Exhibit Celebrates Trisha Brown’s Creative MilieuArt and Taste of Shabbat: Selections from the collection of Richard Rosenfield at the Old City Jewish Art Center
For forty years, Richard Rosenfeld built up a private collection of art work as he worked as an art dealer. Now, the collection form the center of an exhibition at OCJAC
View More Art and Taste of Shabbat: Selections from the collection of Richard Rosenfield at the Old City Jewish Art CenterThe Artist’s Garden (PAFA): Watch the women bloom
A new exhibit steps into the Garden Movement of American art.
View More The Artist’s Garden (PAFA): Watch the women bloomFirst Friday April 2015: Top arts picks from PaperClips
Here are some Top Picks for what not to miss this First Friday, April 3, handpicked for you by PaperClips.
View More First Friday April 2015: Top arts picks from PaperClipsArt Made in China at PII Gallery
Considering every Ming vase and iPhone is made there, Chinese imports are curiously negatively stereotyped in the United States. Old City’s PII Gallery counters this with its new exhibition of emerging Chinese artist Jinming Huang,
View More Art Made in China at PII GalleryThe Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the arts
Celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2015, the Powel House is hosting an array of special events in the fine and performing arts throughout the year.
View More The Powel House: Utilizing Historic PhilaLandmarks as venues for the artsArt in the Family: An inside preview of UNCLE ANDY (Warhola Films), a family biopic of Andy Warhol
Members of Andy Warhol’s family are preserving their personal recollections in a new film project, UNCLE ANDY: THE ANDY WARHOL FAMILY FILM.
View More Art in the Family: An inside preview of UNCLE ANDY (Warhola Films), a family biopic of Andy WarholTheater in the Galleries: Renegade and the Barnes collaborate with SUBJECT: WOMEN
The Barnes Foundation and the Renegade Company are collaborating on a series of 15 minute theatrical interpretations of the works in the Barnes collection as part of the FREE First Sunday Series.
View More Theater in the Galleries: Renegade and the Barnes collaborate with SUBJECT: WOMENEVERYTHING ONE IN THE DISC OF THE SUN (Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble/FringeArts): Letting go of expectations and having fun
As a child of the sixties who used to go to “happenings” (our version of Fringe) and a devotee of several self-help modalities, I knew I had to go to EVERYTHING ONE IN THE DISC OF THE SUN, .
View More EVERYTHING ONE IN THE DISC OF THE SUN (Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble/FringeArts): Letting go of expectations and having funTERROR BEHIND THE WALLS (Eastern State Penitentiary): Philadelphia’s top halloween attraction
Now in its 22nd year, this theatrical production ranks among the top haunted-house attractions in the US.
View More TERROR BEHIND THE WALLS (Eastern State Penitentiary): Philadelphia’s top halloween attractionTHE BODY LAUTREC (Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen): Fringe Review 53.2
Aaron Cromie’s good-natured portrayal reflects the real Lautrec, who retained his artist’s eye and famed geniality even as he joined his friends in their sad retreat into alcoholism and the dementia of syphilis.
View More THE BODY LAUTREC (Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen): Fringe Review 53.2UNTITLED: WHAT YOU SEE OR WHAT DO YOU SEE (KrieArt): 2014 Fringe Review 19
This entry in the Visual Art category is an art exhibit based on the association between the person looking at the art and the meaning ascribed to the art itself. The artist, Krie Alden, who spoke to me at the event, is excited to be a part of FringeArts, and she loves the idea of “the Fringe being on the fringe, where they support the unexpected.”
View More UNTITLED: WHAT YOU SEE OR WHAT DO YOU SEE (KrieArt): 2014 Fringe Review 19ANDY: A POPERA (The Bearded Ladies Cabaret): The Enigma of Warhol
A post-modern fusion of Pop art with opera, ANDY: A POPERA, a work-in-progress by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, explores the enormous fame and legacy of Andy Warhol, with elements of both tragic opera and opera buffa. The synthesis reflects in part the ambiance of Warhol’s Factory in the Sixties.
View More ANDY: A POPERA (The Bearded Ladies Cabaret): The Enigma of WarholSOLOW FLASH INTERVIEWS 2014, EPISODE EIGHT: DUO OF GROSSNESS, TRIO OF MADNESS
In SoLow, you redact the boring stuff—these tickets and grants and five-year-plans and most importantly the stages and lobbies and flashy pricey venues—which are meant to indicate to the audience member, yes, see this show and not those.
Let’s imagine that when SoLow redacts these walls, what results, remarkably, is not dust and rock and paper shreds, but sand.
A big pile of sand.
SoLow is like a sandbox.
To give you a clearer picture of what’s being built in the sandbox, freelance writer/performer Julius Ferraro conducts a series of flash interviews of our artists.
View More SOLOW FLASH INTERVIEWS 2014, EPISODE EIGHT: DUO OF GROSSNESS, TRIO OF MADNESS[28.1] THIS IS NOT A THEATER (Navin Rawanchaikul, Navin Production): Fringe review
Navin Rawanchaikul has created an epic portrait of the history of Philly’s historic Plays and Players Theater. Hundreds of faces have been painted with photographic…
View More [28.1] THIS IS NOT A THEATER (Navin Rawanchaikul, Navin Production): Fringe review